MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY METHOD AND MAP DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20120200604A1
• Filed: 10/16/2009
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation, Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation, Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Imaeda, Yoichi, Kikuchi, Fukutarou
• Application Number:
  US13/500,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20120200604A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/650
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

The map display device may be a mobile terminal device, and a map is displayed on the display unit. The display unit may be a liquid crystal display device of touch-panel type, and detects the contact position of the contact body such as a user'"'"'s finger, a touch pen or else. When plural contact bodies contact the display unit, the display mode is changed from the normal display mode to the map rotation mode based on the movement amounts of the contact bodies. In the map rotation mode, the displayed map is rotated and displayed based on the movement amount of the contact position of the contact body. When only one contact body is in contact with the display unit after the change to the map rotation mode, the displayed map is rotated and displayed based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body.

Claims

1. A map display device comprising:

a map display unit which displays a map on a display unit;

a contact detecting unit which detects a contact position of a contact body with the display unit;

a mode changing unit which changes a display mode by the map display unit from a normal display mode to a map rotation mode based on a movement amount of the contact positions of plural contact bodies;

a map rotating unit which rotates the displayed map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the contact body,

wherein, when only one contact body is continuously in contact with the display unit after the map is rotated based on the movement amount of the plural contact bodies in the map rotation mode, the map rotating unit rotates the displayed map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body.

2. The map display device according to claim 1,

wherein the map rotation unit rotates the map around a rotation reference point as a center, and

wherein, when only one contact body is in contact with the display unit after the change to the map rotation mode, the map rotation unit determines a rotation amount of the map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body with respect to the rotation reference point.

3. The map display device according to claim 2, wherein the rotation reference point is a center point of the contact positions where two contact bodies first contact the display unit.

4. The map display device according to claim 2, wherein the rotation reference point is a center of the map displayed on the display unit.

5. The map display device according to claim 1, wherein the mode changing unit continues the map rotation mode, after the change to the map rotation mode, as long as at least one contact body is in contact with the display unit.

6. A map display method executed by a map display device including a display unit, comprising:

a map display process which displays a map on the display unit;

a contact detecting process which detects a contact position of a contact body with the display unit;

a mode changing process which changes a display mode by the map display unit from a normal display mode to a map rotation mode based on a movement amount of the contact positions of plural contact bodies;

a map rotating process which rotates the displayed map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the contact body,

wherein, when only one contact body is continuously in contact with the display unit after the map is rotated based on the movement amount of the plural contact bodies in the map rotation mode, the map rotating process rotates the displayed map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body.

7. A map display program stored on a non-transitory storage medium and executed by a map display device including a display unit and a computer, the program makes the computer function as:

a map display unit which displays a map on the display unit;

a contact detecting unit which detects a contact position of a contact body with the display unit;

a mode changing unit which changes a display mode by the map display unit from a normal display mode to a map rotation mode based on a movement amount of the contact positions of plural contact bodies;

a map rotating unit which rotates the displayed map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the contact body,

wherein, when only one contact body is continuously in contact with the display unit after the map is rotated based on the movement amount of the plural contact bodies in the map rotation mode, the map rotating unit rotates the displayed map based on the movement amount of the contact position of the one contact body.

8. (canceled)